Porta Rosa is a Panama-based brokerage built for buyers, owners and investors who are not in the country. We handle the search, the paperwork and the day-to-day so you never have to guess what is happening with your property.
The US dollar circulates as legal tender in Panama, so there is no local-currency exposure on your purchase or your rent roll.
Foreign buyers may hold titled property in their own name on essentially the same terms as Panamanian nationals, with narrow exceptions such as land near national borders.
Titled property is recorded at the Registro Público. We verify title, liens and boundaries before you commit — and we tell you when a property is Rights of Possession rather than titled.
Programs such as the Friendly Nations Visa and the Qualified Investor Permit exist alongside property purchase. We coordinate with licensed Panamanian counsel; we do not practice law ourselves.
Six services, one team, one point of contact. Take one of them or all of them.
A guided search built around your budget, your use case and the reality of each building — not around whatever is easiest to sell.
Pricing grounded in what comparable units actually transact for, and a listing that reaches both the local market and buyers abroad.
Finding a qualified tenant is the easy half. Screening, contracting and collecting is where an absent owner loses money.
The service that makes remote ownership possible: someone accountable on the ground, with a written record of every peso.
We model the deal before you fall in love with the view: gross yield, holding costs, vacancy assumptions and exit.
For clients actually moving. The house is one decision out of twenty, and the other nineteen are what stall a move.
The whole path can be done remotely. Most of our clients do exactly that.
A call where we ask what you are actually trying to do — live in it, rent it, hold it, exit in five years. Free, and with no listing pitch attached.
We come back with a small set of properties and the reasoning behind each one, including the ones we ruled out and why.
We visit in person and walk you through by video — the building, the finishes, the noise, the neighbours, the things photographs hide.
Title and lien search at the Registro Público, HOA standing, tax status and any pending assessments — before money moves.
Promise-to-purchase, escrow, public deed and registration, coordinated with your attorney. Power of attorney if you cannot travel.
Management, leasing or simply a key holder who answers. Your owner portal shows income, expenses and open maintenance items.
We cover the metropolitan area in depth and work selectively in the interior and the beach and mountain markets.
Porta Rosa operates an in-house real-estate intelligence platform. It is the same system our agents work in every day — and part of it is open to you.
The same unit is often published by five agencies at four different prices. Our system fingerprints and merges them, so a shortlist is a list of properties, not a list of advertisements.
Properties and leads are scored against your criteria — price against comparables, days on market, building and location factors — instead of ranked by whoever paid for placement.
Price per square metre, inventory and time-on-market by neighbourhood, tracked over time. When we say a price is high, we show you against what.
If we manage your property you get a login: current income and expenses, maintenance requests and their status, documents and statements. No waiting for a monthly email.
Yes. Foreign nationals may hold titled property in their own name on essentially the same terms as Panamanian citizens. There are narrow exceptions — notably land within a defined distance of national borders — and separate rules apply to Rights of Possession land. We confirm the status of any specific property before you commit.
No. A purchase can be completed remotely through a power of attorney granted to your Panamanian attorney, with funds moving through escrow. We do the physical inspection and walk you through it by video. Many clients see the property in person for the first time after closing — though we would always rather you visit.
Titled property is registered in the Registro Público and can be transferred, mortgaged and insured normally. Rights of Possession (derecho posesorio) is a recognised but weaker interest in untitled land, common in island and coastal areas. ROP is not automatically a bad deal, but it is a different risk profile and it must be priced as one. We always tell you which you are looking at.
Property ownership and immigration status are separate matters in Panama. There are residency routes that interact with investment — the Qualified Investor Permit among them — and others that do not require property at all, such as the Friendly Nations Visa. Requirements and thresholds change, so we introduce you to licensed Panamanian immigration counsel rather than advising on it ourselves.
The US dollar. It circulates as legal tender in Panama alongside the balboa, which is pegged one-to-one and issued as coin. Prices, deposits, rents and closing figures are all in dollars.
It depends on the property, the service level and whether it is a long-term lease or short-stay. We quote a specific fee for a specific property after seeing it — we would rather give you a real number than a range that turns out not to apply to you.
On a standard brokered sale in Panama the commission is customarily paid out of the sale proceeds by the seller. Where an arrangement differs — an off-market search, a buyer-side mandate, an advisory engagement — we put it in writing before we start work.
Yes. A good part of what we do is managing and leasing property for owners who bought years ago and no longer live in Panama, and reviewing portfolios for owners who want a second opinion on what they hold.
Write in English or Spanish, from any time zone. A person reads it — you will get a real answer, not a listing blast.
No newsletter, no automated drip. If you would rather start with a specific property you have already seen, send us the link and we will tell you what we think of it.